Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Coming up Oct. 23–Nov. 28: "Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations" 🎬 Explore rare films spanning key moments in Hong Kong cinema, from THE ARCH to CENTER STAGE. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Thu / Nov 5 / 3 PM – Wrenching News Workshop! 🗞️ Twist and knot newspapers with artist Julia Goodman to contribute to Maren Hassinger’s evolving installation. Free on Free First Thursday, when gallery admission is free all day! 🌿 bampfa.org/hassinger

📅 Mark your calendars! BAMPFA’s Winter Film Season is coming soon! 🎬 Wed / Nov 4 / 11 AM: Member-exclusive presale Fri / Nov 6 / 11 AM: General public onsale Stay tuned for the lineup, and get ready for another season of great cinema! ✨

Sun / Nov 1 / 4 PM THE VALIANT ONES ⚔️🎬 King Hu’s 1975 classic follows a swordfighting duo defending China from pirates and corrupt officials. See this martial arts masterpiece as part of "Hong Kong Cinema: Rarities and Restorations." 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

What does utopia look like in everyday life? Join Isa Prieto at BAMPFA on Nov. 8 at 1 PM for Mapping Utopias, a creative workshop using collective mapmaking to explore belonging, care, joy, and possibility in our communities. 🌱 RSVP required: bampfa.org/mapping-utopias

Coming Dec. 2: MATRIX 290 / Keka Enriquez: "History Painting" 🎨 Enriquez’s first US solo museum exhibition features eight bold new paintings exploring overlooked histories. On view through Apr. 25, 2027. 🖼️ bampfa.org

Sat / Oct 31 / 6:30 PM: KWAIDAN🕯️🎬 Masaki Kobayashi’s Japanese horror masterpiece brings four haunting tales to life with stunning colors, eerie visuals, and a score by Toru Takemitsu. Experience the 4K restoration of the original Director’s Cut! 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

🎬✨ Celluloid Frontiers: A MISSING CAN OF FILM and STOP GENOCIDE. Naeem Mohaiemen explores political memory and contested histories through film, examining Bangladesh’s liberation struggle and the preservation of its past. Thu, Oct 29, 7 PM 🎟️ bampfa.org

New arrivals at the BAMPFA Store! 📆✨ Find 2027 calendars and planners for art lovers, film buffs, Ghibli fans, and more! BAMPFA members get 10% off their purchase. Not a member? Join starting at $40! Visit us Wed–Sun, 11 AM–7 PM. Discount not applicable to sale items.

Marjorie Keller Films: Wed, Oct 21, 7 PM Discover the work of a key figure in experimental cinema whose feminist, handmade films blend poetic imagery, portraits, and social critique. Introduction by experimental film curator and author Steve Anker. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Coming up at BAMPFA: LA MAISON DES BOIS 🇫🇷 Experience Maurice Pialat’s acclaimed seven-part miniseries in a 4K restoration. Set in rural France during WWI, this intimate portrait captures how war transforms a family and their community. Get tickets: bampfa.org/film

🗞️ Upcoming Wrenching News Workshop! All ages are invited. Sat / Oct 17 / 3 PM Thu / Nov 5 / 3 PM ✨ Included with gallery admission. "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" is on view through Nov. 29. bampfa.org/hassinger

It's #mossewednesday, which means it's time for Stefanie Schulte Strathaus' series "Modes of Archivism" at BAMPFA! She will introduce several films this week, and present "Curating Living Archives" on Oct 16th! Details below: bampfa.org/program/stef... @bampfa.bsky.social

Now open: “Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War.” Featuring Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin, and Tiffany Sia, the exhibition explores how media and politics intersected during the Cold War. bampfa.org/private-frontiers

"Jean-Luc Godard’s Early Films" continues through November 19! 🎬 Explore the filmmaker’s radical experiments with jump cuts, storytelling, and text, image, and sound—and the films that inspired generations of directors. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Take a look at "Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces"✨ Explore the Chilean artist’s feminist practice and creative resistance before the exhibition closes on November 15! 🎟️ bampfa.org

October 18 at 3 PM: SHAIHU UMAR 🎬 Adamu Halilu’s landmark Nigerian film was rediscovered in 2016 and digitally restored by Berlin’s Arsenal Filminstitut. Set in 19th-century northern Nigeria, the film is introduced by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Oct. 31 at 1 PM: Steffani Jemison and Leslie Cuyjet reflect on the artistic partnership of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi through improvised dance and thread, alongside archival projections. 🌿 Tickets required; gallery admission included. 🎟️ bampfa.org/hassinger

Coming up Oct. 14–18: "Stefanie Schulte Strathaus: Modes of Archivism" 🎬 BAMPFA welcomes Stefanie for a week of talks and presentations on film archives, restoration, and curatorial practice, including the free Mosse Lecture on Oct 16. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

The final days of MVFF49 are here at BAMPFA! 🎬✨ atch one of the remaining screenings Oct. 10–11, including UNION TOWN, SAD GIRLZ, ON BEHALF OF MY SON, A GIRL UNKNOWN, and more! 🎟️ bampfa.org/mvffa

Have you experienced "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" yet? 🌿✨ Explore sculpture, performance, video, and installation spanning Hassinger’s career from the early 1970s to the present. On view at BAMPFA through Nov. 29. 🎟️ bampfa.org/hassinger

I spent almost 8 hours yesterday at @bampfa.bsky.social in the company of director Julia Loktev's "Undesirable Friends" -- dissident Russian journalists forced to flee their country after the Ukraine invasion yet determined to keep reporting. An indelible experience. bampfa.org/event/my-und...

Second Saturday for Families is Oct 10! Gallery admission is free for kids under 13 + one accompanying adult. Special family programming: 🎨 11:30 AM — Wind Chime Sculpture 📚 2:30 PM — Bilingual Roundtable Reading: "The One and Only Ivan" https://bampfa.org/family-programs

Don't miss “Martin Scorsese Pictures” This extensive retrospective explores the themes and cinematic language that have shaped Scorsese’s six-decade career. If you haven’t made it to a screening yet, there’s plenty more Scorsese to come. Learn more: bampfa.org/scorsese

Meet Judith Scott 🧶✨ Scott’s "Untitled" (2002) is on view in “Some Particular Heaven” at BAMPFA. Created during her time at Creative Growth, the wrapped fiber sculpture reflects the independence and self-direction that defined her practice. Learn more at bampfa.org.

MVFF49 starts this week at BAMPFA, and we’re getting ready to host ten screenings spanning documentary, drama, and international cinema! BAMPFA members receive discounted pricing on all MVFF49 screenings. Browse the lineup and get tickets at bampfa.org/mvff 🎟️

Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week is Sept. 30–Oct. 4! ✨ Enjoy 50% off BAMPFA gallery admission with code NEXUS. Plus, join special tours of "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" with BAMPFA curators, educators, and UC Berkeley graduate students. 🌿 RSVP required.

Susan Oxtoby’s Georgian Cinema Now launched Weds @bampfa.bsky.social, continues through next autumn. Been to four screenings; phenomenal films, North American premieres, + a delegation of ten filmmakers & advocates from Tbilisi, Berlin, Geneva, & Prague are in town. Photos from the first Q & A.

🎁 GIVEAWAY! Enter to win a copy of Art Handlxrs* Book, SF Bay Area edition! Enter via the link in bio. Winner chosen on October 12.📖🎨

Sept. 30 at 7 PM: SELF-PORTRAIT ALONG THE BORDERLINE 🎬🇬🇪 Join filmmaker Anna Dziapshipa in person for her deeply personal documentary exploring her Abkhazian-Georgian identity and the conflict dividing the two nations. 🎟️ bampfa.org/georgian-cinema

Thank you to everyone who joined us for “Pink Trash”! 🌸🌿 We loved gathering for Maren Hassinger’s iconic 1982 performance, restaged with six UC Berkeley students. Together, they explored our relationship with nature and our shared responsibility to care for the natural world.

This Thursday is Free First Thursday at BAMPFA! 🗓️ Gallery admission is free all day on Oct. 1. Join our free Exhibition Tour of “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing” at 1:15 PM, or spend some time in the Fisher Family Art Lab. 🎨 Learn more: bampfa.org

Sept. 26 at 4 PM, Rasha Salti in conversation with Natalia Brizuela. Salti discusses Palestinian–Chilean solidarity and transnational artist networks under dictatorship and occupation, joined by Brizuela, co-curator of "Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces" 🎟️ bampfa.org

“Georgian Cinema Now: Part 1” starts tomorrow! 🎬🇬🇪 Experience contemporary Georgian cinema through screenings, conversations, and a visiting delegation of ten filmmakers and experts. Explore the lineup and plan your visit: bampfa.org/georgian-cinema

September 24 at 7 PM: BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY 🎬🇬🇪 Following the screening, the film's director Elene Naveriani joins Salomé Asatiani and Salomé Jashi for a conversation. Part of “Georgian Cinema Now: Part 1.” 🎟️ Learn more and get tickets at bampfa.org/georgian-cinema

Step inside “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing.” 🩷 Explore Hassinger's work spanning the early 1970s to the present, and themes of interconnectedness, collaboration, and our relationship with the natural world. On view through Nov. 29. bampfa.org/hassinger

Join us Sept. 26 for the free Georgian Cinema Now Symposium. 🇬🇪🎬 Filmmakers, journalists, scholars, and activists discuss Georgia’s current political and cultural landscape, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and more. 11:30 AM–5 PM. bampfa.org/georgian-cinema

On Saturday, September 19, Kopi Bar and Bakery will close early at 2 PM for a private event. BAMPFA will remain open from 11 AM to 7 PM. ☕️ Kopi Bar and Bakery will be back to regular hours Sunday, September 20. Thanks for understanding, and we'll see you soon! 🩵

Coming soon: “Georgian Cinema Now: Part 1,” Sept. 23–Oct. 2. 🎬🇬🇪 Experience contemporary Georgian cinema through screenings, conversations, and a visiting delegation of ten filmmakers and experts. Explore the lineup and plan your visit: bampfa.org/georgian-cinema

Tickets are on sale now for MVFF49 at BAMPFA! 🎬✨ We’re once again the exclusive East Bay venue for the Mill Valley Film Festival, bringing new films to Berkeley this October! 🎟️ Check out the lineup and get tickets at bampfa.org/mvff or the link in bio!

Coming up Sept. 26 at 1 PM: "Contemplative Salt Bath" 🧂✨ Led by artist Beatriz Escobar, this participatory workshop invites attendees to explore contemplation, embodiment, and new relationships to our horizons. Included with admission; space is limited and first come, first served. bampfa.org

Coming up Sept. 19 at 7 PM: THE HOLE Tsai Ming-liang’s surreal 1998 film blends sci-fi and musical elements to explore isolation, environmental catastrophe, and the failure of communication in a rain-soaked Taipei. See a new 35mm print at BAMPFA. 🎞️ bampfa.org/film

Coming up Sept. 19 at 2 PM: Artist’s Conversation: Marcel Pardo Ariza. 🎨 Join Ariza and BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton for a conversation about Ariza’s new Art Wall project and Art Handlxrs. Tickets required; gallery admission included. 🎟️ bampfa.org

BARBARA FOREVER with director Brydie O'Connor in Person on September 16 at 7 PM! 🎬 This award-winning debut celebrates pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer and her groundbreaking work. O’Connor will be in conversation with UC Berkeley’s Luis Madrigal after the film. 🌈 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

MVFF49 at BAMPFA is here! 🎬✨ Explore this year’s lineup of acclaimed international and independent films. 🎟️ Tickets go on sale Sept. 17 at 12 PM. BAMPFA members get special discounted pricing. Not a member? Join for $40/year! bampfa.org/mvff49

Coming soon: "Georgian Cinema Now: Part 1" 🎬🇬🇪 Experience the power and urgency of contemporary Georgian cinema through screenings and conversations with a delegation of ten filmmakers and experts visiting the Bay Area. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Opening tomorrow: "Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War" This exhibition explores how media, culture, and politics intersected during the Cold War and how those histories shape our present. On view Sept. 9–Dec. 13. Learn more at bampfa.org

Sept. 19 at 1 PM: Curators’ Conversation on "Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces" Cocurators Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson discuss Rosenfeld’s art under authoritarianism and her work across performance and video. Tickets required; gallery admission included 🎟️ bampfa.org

Starting Sept. 5: "Martin Scorsese Pictures" 🎬 From MEAN STREETS to GOODFELLAS, this extensive retrospective explores the themes, influences, and cinematic vocabulary that have defined Scorsese’s six-decade career. The series continues through June 2027. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Second Saturday for Families is Sept. 12! Gallery admission is free for children under 13, and an adult chaperone is free. 🎨 11:30 AM — Gallery + Studio 📚 2:30 PM — Roundtable Reading 🎬 4 PM — MODERN TIMES, a separately ticketed screening recommended for ages 8+ Learn more at bampfa.org